The Living Age, Volume 255Living Age Company, 1907 |
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Page 288
... humor was irrepressible , though for some reason or other the value of that humor in the historian of Frederick the Great , of Mirabeau , and of Cromwell , or even the necessity of it , has never been suf- ficiently appreciated . This ...
... humor was irrepressible , though for some reason or other the value of that humor in the historian of Frederick the Great , of Mirabeau , and of Cromwell , or even the necessity of it , has never been suf- ficiently appreciated . This ...
Page 289
... humor in him than the happy superficial man whose do- main is more properly Wit ; closely al- lied as wit and humor are , the one al- most excludes the other . Humor is an attitude of mind belonging , one might say exclusively , to the ...
... humor in him than the happy superficial man whose do- main is more properly Wit ; closely al- lied as wit and humor are , the one al- most excludes the other . Humor is an attitude of mind belonging , one might say exclusively , to the ...
Page 294
... humor in this immortal classic was conscious or not . What must we think , for instance , of the case of the immortal cattle of Helios the Sungod ? The companions of ... humor of the thing we should 294 The Value of Humor in History .
... humor in this immortal classic was conscious or not . What must we think , for instance , of the case of the immortal cattle of Helios the Sungod ? The companions of ... humor of the thing we should 294 The Value of Humor in History .
Contents
Canada and Japan | 56 |
Dickens and the Entente Cordiale | 116 |
The Perception of Time in Sleep | 122 |
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